Another day of protests against the government in Kenya is being prepared. The young activists have declared, in a united manner and not only through a few social networks that proclaim protests every day, that they want to take to the streets to demand justice for the victims of the previous clashes with the police, during the demonstrations of the last few weeks, which then degenerated into violence, with 41 dead and over 200 injured.
According to the activists, the government has not only failed to take responsibility for these killings, but has numbered only 25 of them, when all the human rights associations in the country have named and surnamed the 41 victims, all of whom they say died as a result of bullets fired by the police against unarmed people.
President Ruto's assurances of radical changes to his policy, with the revocation of the controversial finance law first, and the almost complete dissolution of the council of ministers, were not enough. The young people of the 'Z generation', under the cry of 'Ruto must go', want the dissolution of the entire parliament and a total reset of the old politics, which in their view is mainly based on corruption.
In the centre of Nairobi and in the main Kenyan cities, shops will remain closed today as they wait to see how the situation will evolve in demonstrations that were announced as peaceful but have too often resulted in violence and raids. In the past few days, President Ruto has also accused an American NGO, the Ford Foundation, of being among the financiers of the violent protests, while some politicians have repeatedly spoken of 'infiltrators paid by power lobbies' to degenerate peaceful protests into violence.